HISTORY OF THE NEUTRINOS

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1898Discovery of the radioactivityThe first car's races (70 km/h maximum!)1926Problem with beta radioactivityBetween two wars, people dance the Charleston and the Boston1930Pauli invents the neutrino particleCrisis of 1929...1933Fermi baptizes the neutrino and builds his theory of weak interactionHitler gets power in Germany1956First discovery of the neutrino by an experimentRiots in Budapest. Indochina. Cold war. Atmospheric tests of thermonuclear bombs.1962Discovery of an other type of neutrino:
the Missiles of Cuba, not far from the End!1974Discovery of neutral currents thanks to the neutrinosEnergy crisis... first oil problem1977Discovery of the tau (co-particle of
)Energy crisis... second oil problem1985-1989Pseudo-discovery of a neutrino at 17 keVThe man on the moon 20 years ago. Mutations in European East countries1990The mystery of dark matter comes againBerlin wall finally has fallen! It was on 11th of November 1989.1991LEP experiments show that there are only three light neutrinosEltsine is the new President of Russia. Iraq invades Koweit1994First proclamation of possible neutrinos oscillations
seen by LSND experimentRwanda, Yugoslavia, Tchetchenia... 1995Missing solar neutrinos confirmed by GALLEXInternet and its WWW explode... and LAPP is 19 years old1998May be neutrinos oscillations seen in LSND and Super-KamiokandeHuman rights declaration is 50 years old, 1968 is 30 years old

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